JESUS’ MEAL WITH MATTHEW (1 OF 3)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Luke 5:12-26
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Jesus’ Meal with Matthew (1 of 3)
Series: Jesus Loves Sinners
Scott Maze
Luke 5:12-26
Jesus kept the wrong company.
In the later decades of the nineteenth century, Hell's Half-Acre was known as the red-light district of Fort Worth. While the area was cleared in the 1960s for the Tarrant County Convention Center, it was, as the name suggests, a rough and rowdy district. In the 1870s, the Chisholm Trail was the cattle trail from Texas to Kansas ran through the lower end of downtown. It was here that you could find two-story saloons, dance halls, and bordellos. The more famous of the Old West was men like Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It was in Hell's Half-Acre that you could find what one newspaper writer said were, ''...lewd women of all ages 16-40... the experienced thief, [and] the ordinary murderer...''
We begin a series of messages known as Jesus Loves Sinners. Today, I want to explore with you Jesus' connections to people on the other side of the tracks.
After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, ''Follow me.'' 28 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.
29 And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. 30 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, ''Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?'' 31 And Jesus answered them, ''Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.'' (Luke 5:27-32)
1. Birds of a Feather, Flock Together
There's a saying that the religious people of Jesus' day knew well and it continues to our day. Your mother told it to you, ''Be careful of the company you keep.'' Those with whom you assemble, we soon resemble. And this is at the heart of a religious controversy that swept ...
Series: Jesus Loves Sinners
Scott Maze
Luke 5:12-26
Jesus kept the wrong company.
In the later decades of the nineteenth century, Hell's Half-Acre was known as the red-light district of Fort Worth. While the area was cleared in the 1960s for the Tarrant County Convention Center, it was, as the name suggests, a rough and rowdy district. In the 1870s, the Chisholm Trail was the cattle trail from Texas to Kansas ran through the lower end of downtown. It was here that you could find two-story saloons, dance halls, and bordellos. The more famous of the Old West was men like Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It was in Hell's Half-Acre that you could find what one newspaper writer said were, ''...lewd women of all ages 16-40... the experienced thief, [and] the ordinary murderer...''
We begin a series of messages known as Jesus Loves Sinners. Today, I want to explore with you Jesus' connections to people on the other side of the tracks.
After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, ''Follow me.'' 28 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.
29 And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. 30 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, ''Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?'' 31 And Jesus answered them, ''Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.'' (Luke 5:27-32)
1. Birds of a Feather, Flock Together
There's a saying that the religious people of Jesus' day knew well and it continues to our day. Your mother told it to you, ''Be careful of the company you keep.'' Those with whom you assemble, we soon resemble. And this is at the heart of a religious controversy that swept ...
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